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# Brahmajalasutta 3.16

Brahmajālasutta 3.16

- **Language:** Pāli

### [3.16.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.1)

Tamañño evamāha:

> But someone else says to them:  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.16.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.2)

‘atthi kho, bho, eso attā, yaṃ tvaṃ vadesi, neso natthīti vadāmi;

> ‘That self of which you speak does exist, I don’t deny it.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.3)

no ca kho, bho, ayaṃ attā ettāvatā sammā samucchinno hoti.

> But that’s not how this self becomes rightly annihilated.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.4)

Atthi kho, bho, añño attā sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṃ samatikkamma “santametaṃ paṇītametan”ti nevasaññānāsaññāyatanūpago.

> There is another self that has gone totally beyond the dimension of nothingness. Aware that “this is peaceful, this is sublime”, it passes on to the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.5)

Taṃ tvaṃ na jānāsi na passasi.

> You don’t know or see that.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.6)

Tamahaṃ jānāmi passāmi.

> But I know it and see it.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.16.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.7)

So kho, bho, attā yato kāyassa bhedā ucchijjati vinassati, na hoti paraṃ maraṇā, ettāvatā kho, bho, ayaṃ attā sammā samucchinno hotī’ti.

> Since this self is annihilated and destroyed when the body breaks up, and doesn’t exist after death, that’s how this self becomes rightly annihilated.’  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.16.8)

Ittheke sato sattassa ucchedaṃ vināsaṃ vibhavaṃ paññapenti.

> That is how some assert the annihilation of an existing being.  
> — The Divine Net

## Translations (5)

- [Наставление о величайшей сети](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~ru-khantibalo.3.16.1) — Russian
- [Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~sr-brankokovacevic.3.16.1) — sr
- [Das göttliche Netz](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~de-sabbamitta.3.16.1) — German
- [The Divine Net](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-sujato.3.16.1) — English
- [Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-rhysdavids.3.16) — English

## Linked texts (3)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.21.39) — Classical Chinese
- [梵網六十二見經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.brahmajalasutra*zh-zhi-qian.1.47) — Classical Chinese
- [Vibhaṅga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.ap.vibhanga.17.282.5) — Pāli

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